Speech of Prof. K. Anbazhagan, Minister for Finance, Government of Tamil Nadu, presenting the Budget for 2008-2009 to the Legislative Assembly on 20th March, 2008.

This paper examines core features of poor rural areas, the nature of coordination problems faced by different potential economic actors, the impacts of these problems on markets and economic development, and the ways that these have been addressed or ignored in different policies and policy...

The Official Group would like to recommend a set of policy initiatives for the consideration of the Government of Karnataka. The recommendations of the Official Group are grouped under the following headings: 1. Creating Multiple Sources of Farm Income; 2. ‘Raitha Shakthi’ -...

The objectives of the policy on organic farming, the strategies of the policy are explained here.

The robust performance of the Indian economy continued during the second quarter (July-September) of 2005-06. According to the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO), the economy recorded a real GDP growth of 8.0 per cent in the second quarter of 2005-06 maintaining the momentum of growth in the...

This study is an inter-sectoral analysis of state domestic product data to understand the determinants of the services sector growth in India during the recent years. It is a demand side analysis where the services sector output of a specific state is not only a function of the outputs of a...

Speech of Sri K. Rosaiah

KIA proposes to bring a paradigm shift in Indian Agriculture in terms of human resource development, research, technology generation, technology dissemination and commercialization. In the short run, the KIA would concentrate on the four themes namely, (i) education, learning resources,...

The present study was undertaken to examine the health and sustainability of RNFS units and the remedial measures required for the same. A sample of 47 borrowers included manufacturing (power looms, brick making, furniture making, plastic granules making, plastic pipes making, RCC pipes making,...

Budget presented by Finance Minister